Rattler Nation has learned that to turn around sagging enrollment numbers that FAMU admissions officers are still accepting students. Further, our FHAC bureaus have confirmed that the University has taken the unusual step of contacting students who were previously denied admission and asking them to enroll. Hmm...
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Rattler Nation has learned that to turn around sagging enrollment numbers that FAMU admissions officers are still accepting students. Further, our FHAC bureaus have confirmed that the University has taken the unusual step of contacting students who were previously denied admission and asking them to enroll. Hmm...
You can't be serious. Man this seems like a comedy of errors.
ReplyDeleteWell, at least the good news in this is that FAMU's interim administration is finally taking some action, albeit belated, in order to boost our enrollment. I don't like the idea of begging and crawling to students we previously denied admission to, but at this point we really have few options.
ReplyDeleteIf FAMU doesn't meet its state-required threshold for student credit hour enrollment, then our university is going to suffer some very severe mult-million dollar penalties from the Florida Legislature. We're literally in a fight for our lives here.
All this could have been avoided if we had simply maintained the already successful recruitment program.
Do you really think these dummies want to be successful? Please give me a break.
ReplyDeleteLarry, Moe and Curly are running the damn university. Slap stick comedy left and right.
Enrollment has been declining for the last five years. The Legislature will not allow the university to have as many out of state students as they used to. If they have to many they will be penalized.
ReplyDeleteThe number of blacks applying to attend college has drop significantly. I don't have the exact numbers but the Florida Board of Education does. Call them if you want the actual numbers.
In addition to those fact, black children just aren't going to college anymore. We need to develop a strategy to encourage them to attend. FAMU isn't the only school seeing a decline it is university wide. In the same Tallahassee Democrat article, it mention that though FSU's enrollment increased by a 1000 the majority of those students entered graduate programs and not under grad.
Rep. Tony Hill is working on a plan to get more young black males in school. If we are really concern about enrollment we should call him and ask what we can do to help.
That is my take on that issue!
But to be honest, if FSU had a choice, they would go to a completely graduate-level institution because they get way more money from the state for grad students than undergrad. FSU "limited" freshmen enrollment. FAMU has no such cap in place. We are literally begging undergrads to come to FAMU. What the hell has happpened?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous @ 8/30/2006 6:02 pm,
ReplyDeleteReally no one is buying into Blacks aren't going to school. They are just not applying and coming to FAMU.
Almost every HBCU in the state of Florida incoming freshman class increased with the exception of FAMU.
Yeah, I heard the Tony Hill speech about getting more AA males into college and away from prisons, but the fact still remains FAMU's enrollment is decling while every other Florida state university and community college's enrollment is increasing or maintaining.
The PSAT listing had over 1,600 students that scored in the 95th percentile. If we were able to recruit students from the 80th percentile we would still be making progress, but we chose not to recruit or to be selective. We are admitting folks that are basically illiterate or not even ready for community college and expect them to perform university like work. People, who are we fooling admitting these types of students. It is not fair to the student and the university suffers in the end.
Look for more declining enrollment figures and dismal graduation rates.
BTW, there are Black students that got into UF, USF, UCF, BCC, EWC, FMC, FIU, FAU and FSU. Did we make an effort to recruit them to FAMU?
FAMU's enrollment has not been declining over the past five years. FAMU's enrollment increased every year under Humprhies and Gainous. We did not see a drop in enrollment under Bryant cut the recruitment program in 2005. The following fall, enrollment began to plummett.
ReplyDeleteIf I were a parent with a college-age student who'd applied for admissions to come to FAMU and then was denied based on whatever, I wouldn't stoop to come to a place that didn't want me in the first place. Now, you gone come begging?? I don't think so. If I wasn't good enough to come to the university in the first place, I sure wouldn't be trying to come in second place. All of a sudden, I'm I'm good enough now? FAMU's administration needs to treat its people better than they do. Black folks just got to do better. We have got to treat each other better than we do. We hate each other; that's the bottom line. My grandfather used to tell me, "When you know better, you do better." Apparently the administration never did learn such a lesson on its way to their lofty places in higher ed. Shame on Castell. Shame on Debra. I wouldn't send a dollar to a university that has so little regard for its fellow human beings. For shame on them all.
ReplyDeleteIt is obvious that there are no supportive verbiage from folks who think that the current administration is doing a fantastic job. Why is there no praising God for the way that FAM is getting a higher proportion of students who are not ready for college. Further it is clear that in addition of increasing one population of students, the overall student population is down. This simply means we are getting less of the best students. This is not FAMU, this is not FAMU's legacy, this is not Rattler history.
ReplyDeleteFor the future of FAMU, literally through the student population, change is necessary!
God bless the new president.
Anonymous said...8/31/2006 8:26 AM
ReplyDeleteCan you expound on your comments. You lost me after first sentence and the point you were making.
I'm in agreement with the commentator immediately before me in terms of the comments being made before her/him. What in the hell is being said? Just a bunch of jumbled-up writing? No point. No argument. No logic. Incoherence. Jesus Christ! If you can't and/or are unable to express yourself clearly and, perhaps, concisely, you need college more than the unprepared students you are so adamantly are supporting. After the first sentence, I was completely lost.
ReplyDeleteImagine this conversation:
ReplyDeleteAdmission Officer: Hello may i speak to XXX
Student: Yes
Admission Oficer: I am calling from FAMU; I realize that you were denied admission earlier. But we have reconsidered. Are you still interested in attending FAMU?
Student: HUH?
More simply stated for 8/31/2006 10:53 AM & 8/31/2006 1:11 PM.
ReplyDeleteThere seems to always be a supporter of the administration saying God bless Castell regardless of how badly things look. There is no such praise for the low student numbers.
The lower student numbers are bad for FAM. Worse still is that though there is a decline in the number, there is also a decline in the quality.
Because studets are the future of a school, the very future is complicated by not doing our very best to go after the very best.
As such, it is clear that there can be no bragging about the wonderful job of this administration with regards to the students. There is no God bless FAMU.
And so, I ask facetiously that God bless the new president because the interim has neglected her duty.
Sorry for the dry wit and the compounded sentences. I am also that you were unable to comprehend.
From Anonymous @ 8/31/2006 10:53 AM
ReplyDeleteThanks for the re-write.